Archive | December 2018

4T’s Nativity play

Christmas is almost here and people are starting to celebrate but do you actually know how Christmas began. 4T is making a play showing people how Christmas began. It is the story of the nativity.

The nativity is where a girl named Mary got pregnant at the age of 15 or 16. Most people would think that is crazy now. In B.C times that was normal. Women then would marry at young ages to men who were in their 30’s. That is a big age difference. Mary was not having a normal child she was going to be having the son of god. She was told to call him Jesus by the angel Gabriel. In those times women who weren’t married and had a child received the stoning penalty. The stoning penalty is where people can throw stones at you til you die. You can tell that Joseph Mary’s soon to be husband Joseph wasn’t going to be happy. You might not have been able to tell he he wouldn’t be happy. That is because you probably think that they were going to get married Mary wouldn’t be killed and happily ever after. It wasn’t as simple as that though. Mary and Joseph were arranged to be married and Joseph was contemplating wether to go through with the marriage or not. Joseph was about to choose no when an angel visited him and told him to marry Mary. After they got married they had to go to Bethlehem to register for a census. When they were in Bethlehem there were to many people and nowhere to stay. So Jesus had to be born in a stable. After Jesus was born a new star appeared in the sky. After he was born many people visited him and gave him gifts. Not everything a was happy though as King Herod was jealous of Jesus and wanted to kill him. So an angel visited Joseph and told him about King Herod so Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus flexed to Egypt until people wishing harm to Jesus died. They then went to Nazareth.

In the 4T’s nativity play we wrote our own scripts and had to audition for our parts. I got the part of the angel. There are 2 angels and I got the one with the name angel. The other angel was called Gabriel.

Beneath our feat

I In our integrated unit this term we have been about fascinating natural disasters. We each picked a natural disaster we interested in and researched it. I chose to research tsunamis. After we research our natural disaster we wrote an information report and made dioramas. My diorama is of a tsunami midway of hitting a city.

My diorama

My plan

Tsunamis are hydrological disasters meaning they have to do with water. Usually tsunamis are caused by an earthquake under the sea. Tsunamis occur in the ring of fire 80% of the time because tectonic plates moving more often making tsunamis more common.

What I enjoyed most was making my diorama because I liked being creative and doing something different. I also liked making my diorama because you could do whatever you wanted with it. It was also fully done by myself and I am proud of the way I did it.

This is my information report:

Tsunamis

Researched and written by Paige, 4T, 2018

Tsunamis are huge waves that rush to the shore. They are caused by 2 tectonic plates moving against each other. This disaster is a hydrological disasters meaning they have to do with water.

After tsunamis there are lots flooding and floating debris. There is debris because when they hit there is enough strength to destroy everything in its path. So the materials from building get dragged away in the water. This disaster is measured by height and strength. After a tsunami hits, the effect of flooding can last for 2 or more hours.

A tsunami hitting a town

Causes

Tsunamis are commonly caused by earthquakes under the sea floor. This disaster more commonly occur in the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean is where most tsunamis have occurred. This is because tectonic plates in this area are making earthquakes more common. Tsunamis always occur on the coast.

A drawing of the cause of a tsunami.

Effects

Tsunamis bring the effect of flood, destruction and even death. They go through houses and leave people without the simple resources they need to survive. People are left without food, water and medication from their houses being destroyed. People are left to live in the dirty water. Animals habitats are also destroyed. Depending on which country the tsunami hit in can take years and lots of money to restore the landscape.

The effect of a tsunami

Fast Facts

The word tsunami means harbour wave in Japanese.

When a this disaster reaches shore it can grow by 10 times.

Bibliography

https://www.natgeokids.com/au/discover/geography/physical-geography/tsunamis/

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